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2186. Abū Dharr said: "I entered the Masjid at sunset, and the Prophet ﷺ was sitting. He said: 'O Abū Dharr! Do you know where this (sun) goes?' I said: 'Allāh and His Messenger know better.' He said: 'Indeed it goes to seek permission to prostrate, so it is permitted. And it is as if it has been said to it:[1] "Rise from whence you came." So it shall rise from its setting place.' Then he[2] recited: 'That is its fixed course.'"
He[3] said: "That is the recitation of 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd."[4] (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said: There are narrations on this topic from Ṣafwān bin 'Assāl, Ḥudhaifah bin Asīd, Anas and Abū Mūsā.
This Ḥadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ.
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The sun, like all things in the universe, is all the time under the Throne of Allāh. And we know it too well that all things in the universe, even the smallest particle in it, is ever-obedient and dutiful to the will and command of Allāh. But since both the rising and the setting of the sun are by Allāh's permission, when Allāh decides to wrap up this world, He will not accept the sun's prostration and will not grant it permission to rise again.
